Jackson, age 5 at the time this article was reported, didn’t care much for the family dog. But when he went over to a friend’s house he became enthralled with their pair of turtles, Snappy and Shelly, who’d bask on a rock beneath their heat lamp or swim circles in their aquarium. When these friends mentioned they needed to find a new home for the turtles, Christina Dobbs, Jackson’s mom, jumped at the chance.